ikanreed:Yep, I'm the lonely one. That's it. Because I can socialize in person and don't depend on validation through people clicking a damned button next to things I say.

//Please click "Smart", thanks.

Every person I've ever seen who is popular on Facebook has good interpersonal skills. Being able to socialize in person isn't an ability that you lose once you create an account. The opposite, you get more opportunities to socialize in person.

Sure, you can misuse the site to supplement real interaction but that will just add to fatigue. People who know how to use it, can and do discriminate who they block or promote, that is what lists are for.

flanker27del:ikanreed: Yep, I'm the lonely one. That's it. Because I can socialize in person and don't depend on validation through people clicking a damned button next to things I say.

//Please click "Smart", thanks.

Every person I've ever seen who is popular on Facebook has good interpersonal skills. Being able to socialize in person isn't an ability that you lose once you create an account. The opposite, you get more opportunities to socialize in person.

Sure, you can misuse the site to supplement real interaction but that will just add to fatigue. People who know how to use it, can and do discriminate who they block or promote, that is what lists are for.

Nah, we know that frequent Facebook use is associated with narcissistic personality disorder. People I know who stopped using facebook became a lot more pleasant to be around, within a few weeks of doing so. Interesting people talk about ideas. Boring people talk about people.

My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Psycoholic_Slag:My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

If you're in that age bracket you should keep a facebook account open and selectively add flattering pictures and valued friends to it. Keep stuff in there that your parents and future employers won't find awkward. Use Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and whatever the latest thing is to share the stuff you don't want to be associated with in 5 years.

2) Stop "Friending" everyone you come in contact with, mute everyone you don't want to hear from. The drama queens, the memesters, the people who post random photos with insipid quotes, the Rachel Maddow/Rush Limbuagh (pick your poison) wannabes. If you barely know them, mute or drop. If you know them, mute.

3) Unlike some stuff. Over 3 million people like Tide for some reason. Do you really want to give P&G free ad-space on your monitor?

4) Block game requests from people. A few people never stopped asking me to fertilize their farm or lawn or whatever I'm supposed to do. Block app requests, and things are easier.

5) Fix your privacy. Lock down everything you don't want people to see...and some might see it anyway. At the very least you won't have to worry about future employees Googling your name and finding pictures of your fertilizing your neighbor's lawn.

keepitcherry:Facebook is done. Everyone has moved onto Twitter, then Instagram, and now people are moving on from Instagram to Snapchat & Vine.

It's done? That's funny. I own 500FB@19. As of 11:19AM (EDT) it's at 25.94 on the up-tick. Stop-loss in at 24. Now have someone explain to you that if the stock tanks all the way to the SLO and the order goes off while I'm not watching it, how much money I will have made at 24. (minus $35 in- $35-out = $70) Just don't ask one of those financial-farktards that wrote a while back that FB wouldn't be a 'buy' until it hit 9.

Psycoholic_Slag:My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Well, hilariously enough, one of the reasons MySpace failed is that it gave too much control to the end-user, i.e. "was too complex for them", leading to the infamously bad color layouts we knew and love on the service. Now, we're finding out that Facebook is too complex for most users, soon to be replaced by 140-letter "Tweets" and picture distribution software. Soon, we'll be replacing that with something even dumber and less complex.

Psycoholic_Slag:My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Facebook - deactivated accountLinkedIn - account active but not used weekly/monthlyTwitter - account active just to get shift codes for borderlands 2Google+ - account active but not used weeklyInstagram - no, I use Urbanspoon to share pictures of my foodSnapchat - no, not a teenager worried about sexting

Psycoholic_Slag:My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Soon FB will get to float in a mass of nothingness with MySpace and the ghost of GeoCities. Yay!

PsyLord:Facebook - deactivated accountLinkedIn - account active but not used weekly/monthlyTwitter - account active just to get shift codes for borderlands 2Google+ - account active but not used weeklyInstagram - no, I use Urbanspoon to share pictures of my foodSnapchat - no, not a teenager worried about sexting

So, you've provided everything to advertisers but aren't getting much services in return. Kinda sounds like a bum deal for you.

ikanreed:PsyLord: Facebook - deactivated accountLinkedIn - account active but not used weekly/monthlyTwitter - account active just to get shift codes for borderlands 2Google+ - account active but not used weeklyInstagram - no, I use Urbanspoon to share pictures of my foodSnapchat - no, not a teenager worried about sexting

So, you've provided everything to advertisers but aren't getting much services in return. Kinda sounds like a bum deal for you.

Psycoholic_Slag:My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

PsyLord:Facebook - deactivated accountLinkedIn - account active but not used weekly/monthlyTwitter - account active just to get shift codes for borderlands 2Google+ - account active but not used weeklyInstagram - no, I use Urbanspoon to share pictures of my foodSnapchat - no, not a teenager worried about sexting

Mike_LowELL:Psycoholic_Slag: My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Well, hilariously enough, one of the reasons MySpace failed is that it gave too much control to the end-user, i.e. "was too complex for them", leading to the infamously bad color layouts we knew and love on the service. Now, we're finding out that Facebook is too complex for most users, soon to be replaced by 140-letter "Tweets" and picture distribution software. Soon, we'll be replacing that with something even dumber and less complex.

Twitter you can post from your phone.

Do most people need to post short stories about themselves? Isn't 140 enough?

flanker27del:ikanreed: Yep, I'm the lonely one. That's it. Because I can socialize in person and don't depend on validation through people clicking a damned button next to things I say.

//Please click "Smart", thanks.

Every person I've ever seen who is popular on Facebook has good interpersonal skills. Being able to socialize in person isn't an ability that you lose once you create an account. The opposite, you get more opportunities to socialize in person.

Sure, you can misuse the site to supplement real interaction but that will just add to fatigue. People who know how to use it, can and do discriminate who they block or promote, that is what lists are for.

Yea, this is pretty accurate. It's way easier to set up events with groups of people by using Facebook. I don't rely on Facebook for social planning, but it definitely helps (same with email/text/gchat/etc). And it helps me keep in touch with people I don't see/hear from all the time.

Why would I want to keep in touch with them? I've met many amazing people throughout my life. Staying best friends with all of them would be exhausting. It's nice to take a peek at their lives to see what they're up to once in awhile.

People that have an extremely strong opinion of Facebook and Twitter are people that don't know how to use either, and are way too invested in how other people communicate with the world. Repeat to yourself "It's just social media, I should really just relax."

steve_wmn:If you're in that age bracket you should keep a facebook account open and selectively add flattering pictures and valued friends to it. Keep stuff in there that your parents and future employers won't find awkward. Use Instagram, Vine, Snapchat and whatever the latest thing is to share the stuff you don't want to be associated with in 5 years.

Aren't those services also going to stockpile data? A little out of the loop here.

ikanreed:flanker27del: ikanreed: Yep, I'm the lonely one. That's it. Because I can socialize in person and don't depend on validation through people clicking a damned button next to things I say.

//Please click "Smart", thanks.

Every person I've ever seen who is popular on Facebook has good interpersonal skills. Being able to socialize in person isn't an ability that you lose once you create an account. The opposite, you get more opportunities to socialize in person.

Sure, you can misuse the site to supplement real interaction but that will just add to fatigue. People who know how to use it, can and do discriminate who they block or promote, that is what lists are for.

Nah, 1. we know that frequent Facebook use is 2. associated with narcissistic personality disorder. 3. People I know who stopped using facebook became a lot more pleasant to be around, within a few weeks of doing so. Interesting people talk about ideas. Boring people talk about people.

Car_Ramrod:People that have an extremely strong opinion of Facebook and Twitter are people that don't know how to use either, .... Repeat to yourself "It's just social media, I should really just relax."

ikanreed:flanker27del: ikanreed: Yep, I'm the lonely one. That's it. Because I can socialize in person and don't depend on validation through people clicking a damned button next to things I say.

//Please click "Smart", thanks.

Every person I've ever seen who is popular on Facebook has good interpersonal skills. Being able to socialize in person isn't an ability that you lose once you create an account. The opposite, you get more opportunities to socialize in person.

Sure, you can misuse the site to supplement real interaction but that will just add to fatigue. People who know how to use it, can and do discriminate who they block or promote, that is what lists are for.

Nah, we know that frequent Facebook use is associated with narcissistic personality disorder. People I know who stopped using facebook became a lot more pleasant to be around, within a few weeks of doing so. Interesting people talk about ideas. Boring people talk about people.

PsyLord:Facebook - deactivated accountLinkedIn - account active but not used weekly/monthlyTwitter - account active just to get shift codes for borderlands 2Google+ - account active but not used weeklyInstagram - no, I use Urbanspoon to share pictures of my foodSnapchat - no, not a teenager worried about sexting

Mike_LowELL:Psycoholic_Slag: My 16 and 19 year yr old kids say they rarely go onto Facebook anymore. They say it's all Twitter and Instagram now. It's almost as if it's a form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way. Then it's not cool anymore. Weird.

Well, hilariously enough, one of the reasons MySpace failed is that it gave too much control to the end-user, i.e. "was too complex for them", leading to the infamously bad color layouts we knew and love on the service. Now, we're finding out that Facebook is too complex for most users, soon to be replaced by 140-letter "Tweets" and picture distribution software. Soon, we'll be replacing that with something even dumber and less complex.

Facebook and flat brimmed hats are two things I am eagerly awaiting the death of. I hate that you can't farking buy ANYTHING without a Facebook or Twitter logo on it. The other day I was getting a new shirt out of the closet and went to tear the tags off of it. There was a QR code on the tag that you could scan to share your shirt. I just stood there in the closet facepalming for about 2 minutes, until my wife asked me if I was feeling sick. "Yes."